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In this article, we deal with community pedagogical experiences developed in 2018 and 2019 in the Águas de Menino project, located in the northern region of Goiânia, State of Goiás, Brazil. Capoeira Angola is the central theme of the project, from which ethnic-racial, intergenerational, class and gender issues are problematized. Backyard fund is a metaphor that implies the existence of a physical and symbolic space that enables the community experience through knowledge sharing processes. The project has been materializing as a space for identity affirmation, politicization and collaboration in which the foundations of Capoeira Angola and other Afro-Brazilian manifestations are experienced in a popular dimension, in which thought, feeling and action interpenetrate in a context where we value ancestry, corporeality, orality, affectivity, cultural liveliness and socio-cognitive justice. With this, the action of Águas de Menino can be understood as a possibility of confronting the coloniality of knowledge and the establishment of a proposal for a backyard education that acts in a decolonial perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]